Russia’s military will this week undertake a sweeping drill of its strategic nuclear forces. Navytimes.com As Typhoon Hagibis hammered Japan on Saturday (Oct. 12), thousands of bags containing radioactive waste have reportedly been carried into a local Fukushima stream by floodwaters, potentially having a devastating environmental impact. Taiwannews.com Russian President Vladimir Putin said Iran’s missile program should be dealt with as a separate matter to its nuclear program. Reuters.com Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that a new nuclear weapons deal needed to be struck urgently as he criticized the decision by Donald Trump to pull the U.S. out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty which had been in place since the Cold War. msn.com